Octave

less vital are string and wind instruments, which provide a majority of the melody to the music. The modern Arab system of musical tuning is based upon the theoretical division of the octave into twenty-four equal divisions or 24-tone equal temperaments, in contrast to the European equally tempered scale with the octave divided into twelve equal divisions. rarely does a single piece ever cross the spectrum though, in lrge part due to the monophonic nature of arabic melodic…

As a crime film, The Godfather contains numerous violent, sexual and profane scenes as its plot centers on the Corleone family and their criminal business. However, despite its genre, Nino Rota’s score for the film is generally calm, elegant and operatic. For instance, the main theme of the film is a waltz called the “Godfather Waltz,” which counterpoints the horrible images presented on the screen. As a mournful waltz with a melancholic vibe, the “Godfather Waltz” serves as a leitmotif for Don…

“Tell me something I can hold on to forever and never let go” Were the soft spoken words of Adaline Bowman, after she had found someone she cared deeply about, but she knew they could never be together. Adaline was a woman who lost her husband during the making of the Golden Gate bridge. After the fact of her husband dying it was not long before Adaline at the age of twenty-eight years old got in a car wreck that sent her flying into a frozen lake. The water was so cold it nearly killed her…

The Medieval and Renaissance periods present two distinct cultures and worldviews in the human development. Unlike the Middle-Ages, several Renaissance scientists desired to learn about the earth apart from the idea of a Divine Creator, and philosophers brought in humanistic thinking. Innovations during this period like the gunpowder, telescope, microscope and the print press changed dramatically the people 's lifestyles and views of the world around them. Religion also varied greatly between…

First published in the 11 January 1818. Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English literate who wrote many poems and one of the most famous one is Ozymandias. In the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, he describes a meeting with someone who has traveled to a place where ancient civilizations once existed. We know from the title that he’s talking about Egypt. The poem starts out with several imageries such as “stone”, “desert”, “sand” and “half-sunk”. Here, the stone represents nature that has…

God’s Grandeur by Gerard Hopkins is an Italian sonnet describing God’s existence in this world. This particular poem consist of an octave, with patterns of rhymes in each sentence that describes what’s going on. The poem ends with a sestet. We begin where man has forgotten God, the one who is Creator, Lord, and King. The one who is provider, sustainer, and giver of life? God reigns and rules with authority. He is Omniscient and Omnipotent. Job 42:2 say’ He can do all things and nothing can…

inspiration and similar mathematically-inclined structures. Rhythms were ordered by numbers, because each notes were some multiple of a primary duration. Pythagoras, another profound Greek philosopher, was credited was credited with discovering that the octave, fifth, and fourth, were related to…

What Has Man Made of Himself? “I read aloud from the eleventh book of Paradise Lost. We were much impressed, and also melted into tears” (Hertz 122). Words from the journal of one Williams Wordsworth’s closest friend, his sister Dorothy; this detail could explain Wordsworth’s admiration of John Milton and why in a time of frustration he would appeal to the spirit of Milton to “return to us again”. In his sonnet London, 1802 Wordsworth calls to his poetic forefather Milton and in his…

1945 brought the end of the second world war in which ended the lives of nearly 60 million people. This war had led to changes in the economy, politics, geography and country relations and had also changed people’s sentiments and thoughts. This partly also one reason due to which many 21st century composers changed their approach towards composing music. One example of a composer who changed his attitude to composing music was Alberto Ginastera, an Argentine composer who changed his style of…

tuned in perfect 5th. This tuning is needs the large instrument, on that time cello is the only one bass instrument in strings family. However, to make it cello is the suitable tuning for the others string family, that instrument need to tuned an octave lower from the viola. Until today, cello used the tuning of C2–G2–D3–A3. Bow According to Liu (2011), first existence of bow is on 9th century and found in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Some of the proved shows that in the empires of Arabic and…